Prior to 1947, Suchetgarh used to be an important railway station connecting to Sailkot. The railway line is now defunct and the place is now being promoted like "Wagha", a place from where you can see Pakistan.

This is the season of mustard. All the border villages burn beautiful yellow.

Border fences cut through the agricultural fields

Sailkot is only 11 kilometers from here. This is the shortest road from Jammu to Pakistan.

The other side

Here, at the border date, an old banyan tree is the function border pillar. Half of it is Indian and half is Pakistani.

On the Pakistani side, under the shade of the same tree, a worker.

A Pakistani tower

On the Indian side, the BSF office is where stood the old railway station. The wall facing the border has bullet marks, tagged as "Bullet Marks fired by Enemy". The firing occurs only when tensions between the two countries run very high. When the body burns in fever, bullets arrive like sweat. The last recent bullet marks were from time Kargil war of 1999.

Tourists from Kargil region

Just next to the border post is an old Hindu temple. This is said to be original Ragunath Temple that was later shifted to Jammu.

Across the temple is shrine of Muslim peer "Baba Neeli Tali Walla" that was recently renovated.

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I wonder if there's any old temple being renovated across the border fence at Post Inayat.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Kashmiri women at the Baby Show held at Srinagar on September 25, 1949, during the meeting of the Kashmiri National Conference[Source: Indian Photo Division]

The photo can be divided in three spaces:

1. The periphery, away from viewer: standing women hiding their faces from the camera. Probably, women from affluent Muslim families. The viewers.

2. The boundary formed by a row of women sitting on chairs. Mostly Pandit.

3. Closer to the viewer can be seen the women from working class: there are Muslim women in Pheran and some Pandit women in Saris. All of them sitting together on the ground. Some women feeding babies. The reason the pheran of women is shaped liked that. A woman with a tyok on her forehead and her head wrapped in a Sari, smiling, looking into the camera, happy to be photographed. A little girl in neat dress, her hair neatly tied with a ribbon, happy in her space, unmindful of the crowd. The girl seems to have run away from her spot in the sitting row and instead slipped away to sit with the common crowd, closer to the absent stage.

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